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In cases where we unmap the kernel while running in user space, we rely on ASIDs to distinguish the minimal trampoline from the full kernel mapping, and this means we must use non-global attributes for those mappings, to ensure they are scoped by ASID and will not hit in the TLB inadvertently. We only do this when needed, as this is generally more costly in terms of TLB pressure, and so we boot without these non-global attributes, and apply them to all existing kernel mappings once all CPUs are up and we know whether or not the non-global attributes are needed. At this point, we cannot simply unmap and remap the entire address space, so we have to update all existing block and page descriptors in place. Currently, we go through a lot of trouble to perform these updates with the MMU and caches off, to avoid violating break before make (BBM) rules imposed by the architecture. Since we make changes to page tables that are not covered by the ID map, we gain access to those descriptors by disabling translations altogether. This means that the stores to memory are issued with device attributes, and require extra care in terms of coherency, which is costly. We also rely on the ID map to access a shared flag, which requires the ID map to be executable and writable at the same time, which is another thing we'd prefer to avoid. So let's switch to an approach where we replace the kernel mapping with a minimal mapping of a few pages that can be used for a minimal, ad-hoc fixmap that we can use to map each page table in turn as we traverse the hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609174320.4035379-3-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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